This is an analysis of the poem Doldrums: One Of Murphy's Yarns that begins with:
Day after day the sun stared widely
Over the wide and windless seas;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aXXX edeX XXXX fgfX hfhX bbbb Xbhb igig hjhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 10011101 010101110 10010101 011111110 10111101 110101010 11010101 1110010110 100110101 110111010 101010101 1110101110 101011111 110011010 11011111 1111011110 11111101 011101010 01010101 10111110 1011111 10101110 110101010 101001010 110010101 100101110 010111100 010111110 011100101 0111010010 10011101 101101110 101101001 111101010 01010101 111111010 01010101 110101110 11110101 10101010 1010101 111101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, an', and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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